THE STORY OF STOCK AND BUTTSBURY
ISBN 0 86025 527 1 by Charles Phillips
Author Charles Phillips The history of a pair of intertwined villages from the earliest times to the present. Much of the story is of a rural community getting on with its day to day business of farming, milling teaching, preaching, carrying, brick making " interrupted by the wider world in times of discord, such as the Black Death. the Peasants' Revolt, the Reformation, the Civil Wars, and the World Wars Here can be found country business, cricket matches, religious conflicts, transport between neighbouring towns and villages, with stories of local dignitaries and ruffians and of humble folk in joy and in trouble. The book is illustrated with pictures of Stock as it is now and as it was early in the last century.
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